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What is the most frequently cited scientific journal article?

The most frequently cited scientific article is “Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent” by Oliver Howe Lowry (1910–1996) and coworkers, published in 1951 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Volume 193, issue 1, pages 265–275. As of 2010, this article had been cited 292,968 times since it first appeared.